Frank Pearce was one of the first scholars, if not the first, to use the term "crimes of the powerful." His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, and made important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Coverage of crimes of the powerful had largely been neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of...